Proxy Servers

[Evangelion]

In all actuality, I'm not sure how a proxy is going to help you bypass whatever is blocking you from playing.

A proxy would help you get around a ban, because it makes it so the MUD thinks you're playing from a clean IP address. However, I don't think that will help you get past a block in YOUR network. The way I understand it is like this (prepare yourself for... A DIAGRAM!):

Your Computer ---> Your Router/Modem ---> Firewall/Port Block ---> MUD

When you add a proxy, it becomes:

Your Computer ---> Your Router/Modem ---> Your Proxy ---> Firewall/Port Block ---> MUD

Changing your IP would alter the router/modem step, but not the firewall/port block step. All a proxy does is make your IP anonymous, by making it so whoever is tracing your ID sees the proxy you are connected to, instead of the IP that your connection originates at. It is basically a middleman.

[Deykari]

I have been doing work-based training for the last 3, almost 4 years. My training is complete, and through loads of crap of having to swap departments to avoid being made redundant, I'm now in a department that has enough work to cover about 1/3 of it's staff. This department refuses to let me personally go as a redundant employee, as I am still designated an 'apprentice' even though I completed training early, which means I spend a lot of time sat at my desk twiddling my thumbs.

All it boils down to, is that I have the option of surfing the internet, or occupying myself with soul-destroying jobs like spreadsheet data entry and the like when they are available. Now, sure - I'm being paid to carry out a job - but when Mr. Boss says "You have a week to complete this spreadsheet for me" and I can do that spreadsheet in half a day, I'm going to spend the next 4.5 days being paid to relax as opposed to going to ask for more work. Sorry if that doesn't fit well with some of you, but this job is at the minute, no longer anything but a stop-gap until September 1st and I want it to be as easy a ride as possible. Whether I graft myself to pieces with mindnumbing jobs or surf the internet, the end outcome (wage) will be the same.

If I didn't have that facility there, I would be more than happy to carry out the work simply because it's better than doing nothing. I have no qualms about working hard, but currently I have 0% job satisfaction, no feeling of purpose and little incentive to work within this job and thus will take liberties where possible. Put me back in the environment I was in 3-4 years ago, where I was actually starting a career, and you wouldn't have caught me taking liberties at all.

Before anyone says "Quit your job if it's that bad", I'm there purely for the money until 1st September when my career begins. I had a career lined up with aeronautical engineering (my passion) with this company, but alas, I was shoved to the sidelines and now I'm just another office monkey.

Poor work ethic? Laziness? You decide, but at the end of the day it makes no difference to me because we don't have IT monitoring facilities in this department. No risk of losing job for me. Not that I'd be overly bothered if I did, I could start another job straight away to cover the next few months packing sausages or whatever in a factory, and I'd be happy doing that. I'd be happier being paid to surf the internet though.

Dey

[inscribed]

rather than act all holier-than-thou like some people (i won't point fingers), i'll actually offer help.

the original site was down but here is a link to a cache of it.

http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:3tkOUvH38zsJ:www.asylum-mud.org/live/info/firewalls.html

the link leads to another mud's site but the info is solid. just switch out their mud's info for this one's. let me know if it works.

[English lad]

The problem is that firewalls in the work place typically block a lot of ports as part of the companies security. FL runs on port 1848, which i find is blocked by most corporate firewalls. A solution I saw posted on a similar question was for the game to also be accessible through Port 443 (which deals with Secure Internet connections and as such is Never blocked off) This would be down to Malch however, and what his feelings are about this. Considering the Quoted post by Chay earlier it may be that the Administration wouldn't support subverting your work resources to play the game

There are several Dodgier routes to do this, but I'm not going to give advice on them, incase you get yourself fired and i'm to blame.

[Deykari]

I'm not asking you to post the dodgy options, but just a general comment, anyone who gets fired that way has only themselves to blame, not anyone else.

Dey

[Ex-D&Der]

Don't play at work. It's the bath to Babylon.

[Imoutgoodbye]

I completed training early, which means I spend a lot of time sat at my desk twiddling my thumbs.

All it boils down to, is that I have the option of surfing the internet, or occupying myself with soul-destroying jobs like spreadsheet data entry and the like when they are available.

Sorry if that doesn't fit well with some of you, but this job is at the minute, no longer anything but a stop-gap until September 1st and I want it to be as easy a ride as possible. Whether I graft myself to pieces with mindnumbing jobs or surf the internet, the end outcome (wage) will be the same.

I have no qualms about working hard, but currently I have 0% job satisfaction, no feeling of purpose and little incentive to work within this job and thus will take liberties where possible.

Before anyone says "Quit your job if it's that bad", I'm there purely for the money until 1st September when my career begins. I had a career lined up with aeronautical engineering (my passion) with this company, but alas, I was shoved to the sidelines and now I'm just another office monkey.

Poor work ethic? Laziness? You decide, but at the end of the day it makes no difference to me because we don't have IT monitoring facilities in this department. No risk of losing job for me. Not that I'd be overly bothered if I did, I could start another job straight away to cover the next few months packing sausages or whatever in a factory, and I'd be happy doing that. I'd be happier being paid to surf the internet though.

Dey

Dey, Dey, Dey......*shakes his head*

Let me tell you about one of my co-workers. You see, he wants to be an EMT. Pretty much just drive an ambulance and hang out with his paramedic friends. He's working in a gas station as my subordinate on the midnight shift right now.

You see, Dey, this guy, let's call him.....Fred....Fred believes it's his "destiny" to be an EMT. And where he works now, the place I've spent five years doing hell's pennance, is just a "stop-gap". Funny thing about stop-gaps. They put the food on the table. They put the roof over your head. The gas in your vehicle. SHOW ME THE MONEY! They may not provide as much money as most people want, but....

Now, Fred, sometimes finishes his work early. Doesn't have anything to do. I won't tell him to do something. I tired of yelling at my trainees and subordinates about a year ago. Especially the college kids. So naive about the things that make the world go 'round. Mostly because their mom and dad have their backs. Here's the thing about free time. THEIR ability to find something to do for themselves that will affect the greater good of the company....that'll get them noticed. I've never had a trainee/subordinate impress me. I mean, I'm a guy that's spent five years working at what they call a "stop-gap". However, I take great pride in my job. Three years ago, the store was remodeled, made bigger. I took it upon myself that I would make sure that store stayed as clean as the day it was rebuilt. And so far it has. It makes me feel good to have a customer come out of the bathroom or from wandering the store and tell me that I have the cleanest gas station they have ever been in.

Fred, you see, he doesn't take so much pride in working. He figures he'll show up and get a pay check for baby sitting the store. This tells me Fred doesn't give a sh*t about me, so I'm going to treat Fred like crap. If he thinks he's going to not do his work or not help me with extra, I'll make Fred's life a living legal hell until he quits. I've seen about eight Fred's come and go in my five years there. Fred will always come and go.

Basically, there's nothing I can do for Fred or anyone like Fred.

And I know you're not Fred.

But you're thinking close along the lines of Fred.

*gives Deykari a swift kick in the pants* Quit it.

[KRins]

Dey, Dey, Dey......*shakes his head*

Let me tell you about one of my co-workers. You see, he wants to be an EMT. Pretty much just drive an ambulance and hang out with his paramedic friends. He's working in a gas station as my subordinate on the midnight shift right now.

You see, Dey, this guy, let's call him.....Fred....Fred believes it's his "destiny" to be an EMT. And where he works now, the place I've spent five years doing hell's pennance, is just a "stop-gap". Funny thing about stop-gaps. They put the food on the table. They put the roof over your head. The gas in your vehicle. SHOW ME THE MONEY! They may not provide as much money as most people want, but....

Now, Fred, sometimes finishes his work early. Doesn't have anything to do. I won't tell him to do something. I tired of yelling at my trainees and subordinates about a year ago. Especially the college kids. So naive about the things that make the world go 'round. Mostly because their mom and dad have their backs. Here's the thing about free time. THEIR ability to find something to do for themselves that will affect the greater good of the company....that'll get them noticed. I've never had a trainee/subordinate impress me. I mean, I'm a guy that's spent five years working at what they call a "stop-gap". However, I take great pride in my job. Three years ago, the store was remodeled, made bigger. I took it upon myself that I would make sure that store stayed as clean as the day it was rebuilt. And so far it has. It makes me feel good to have a customer come out of the bathroom or from wandering the store and tell me that I have the cleanest gas station they have ever been in.

Fred, you see, he doesn't take so much pride in working. He figures he'll show up and get a pay check for baby sitting the store. This tells me Fred doesn't give a sh*t about me, so I'm going to treat Fred like crap. If he thinks he's going to not do his work or not help me with extra, I'll make Fred's life a living legal hell until he quits. I've seen about eight Fred's come and go in my five years there. Fred will always come and go.

Basically, there's nothing I can do for Fred or anyone like Fred.

And I know you're not Fred.

But you're thinking close along the lines of Fred.

*gives Deykari a swift kick in the pants* Quit it.

Amen Valek. I remember working in the kitchen of a certain eatery and finding myself on my hands and knees cleaning under the grill...filth a solid inch thick at least. Within 1 week I had a raise of 50 cents. Within a month a dollar. Within 3 months I was making as much as our sorry SOS kitchen manager. Within 6 months I was the kitchen manager. I was just 18 at the 4 month mark and it was my first cooking job. You might not get anything extra right then...but people have believed in karma for hundreds of years for a reason, ya feel me?

[Deykari]

I completely understand the point of working up and putting the graft in to work towards a goal. However, where I work now, I will not work there after the 23rd of August. I am on a 4-year fixed term training contract that expires on that date, and they CAN offer me a job if they so desire. Due to workload, they're not offering me a job - and even if they did, they shifted my career path. What I mean is, not that they gave me awful tasks to do - I can handle that. They took me OUT of my engineering discipline, and told me, "Hey Nick, we don't need any more engineers, so you're going into the business side of things."

I don't want to work in business. I want to work in engineering. If someone turned around to me and told me that working for 5 years doing mind-numbing work would help my engineering career, then I would crack on. In the meantime, I have been looking for an alternate way of getting into the career I would like, and that's with the British armed forces. I will begin 1st September (legally bound, that is). That's the reason this job is a stop gap.

What I am doing now, will make absolutely no difference to my life. If I choose to sit and slam numbers into a spreadsheet or surf the internet, I will be leaving on that date, with the same overall pay, with the exact same reference (our company policy is that they will not give out a character reference - they give only number of sick days taken and length of service) and I have very good character references from individual supervisors I have worked with.

I don't think I can just turn up at work, take liberties, and except life to be fine and dandy. On the contrary, I am putting myself into a position where I will be expected to give 110% or be binned. I do, however, think I can scrape by doing the bare minimum for 2 months in a job that I couldn't give a **** about (and have thought the same for a long time now) and have ultimately been planning to leave for some time.

I'm not trying to make excuses for myself. It's laziness (or poor work ethic, a lack of maturity, or any other similar label), because I'm being paid to work consistently, and instead I'm working about a 1/4 of the time. At the end of the day, I am not averse to graft, but in a situation where I have the option of carrying out meaningless, pointless (because these tasks will not further me), soul-destroying tasks that WILL provide the same result as not doing them because it's for the short-term, I know what I'd choose.

I make no apologies for it, as much as it may make me seem like a complete ****. Nobody's perfect.

Hope I haven't annoyed anyone or come off as sounding annoyed at any of you in this thread. I completely understand where you're all coming from. I think it's time I bowed out of the thread though.

Dey

[Imoutgoodbye]

All right, Dey. I got ya.

I hope all works out well for you. "Fred" ended up getting a few points on his driver's license from speeding. He's stuck working with me. There is no more destiny for him, as deluded as the poor guy is with his appeals.

And I'm not saying you're an *** or anything like that. I'd just kill you if you were my co-worker.

And don't forget! You have the POWER!

[KRins]

Sounds like Fred got introduced to my friend OWNED! I on the other hand wouldn't kill Dey...I'd love having him around, because the desparity between my effort and his would be blatant. I'm not calling you lazy dey...just an imaginary person who does the bare minimum to not get fired who happens to be called dey in my mind. Kudos on the aerospace engineering...that's what I originally went to school for but I couldn't cut the mustard. Thermodynamics just doesn't work in my mind. Valek...my suggestion is to throw Fred in a hammer lock and mop the floor with his face. Mutter threatening things while you do it and he will do whatever you tell him to...that or he'll urinate all over his shoes when you come within 10 yards of him.

[Kyzarius]

Mud 4 Life!

Damn tha Man!

And dont Rock other peoples boats, and hopefully they will stay out of yours!!

[Ali_gmud]

Its GMUD 4 life man

not mud for life

no zmud for life

Its G 2 da mud